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Marinara Sauce (photos)
Posted on 4/30/20 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 4/30/20 at 1:22 pm
One of you asked for this recipe so I put this together.
Marinara Sauce
This is a simple tomato sauce for pasta dishes. It can also be used as a base for making several other tomato based Italian Sauces. Classic recipes for Marinara can either include onion, or not. You can add wine if you like. I think Anchovies also add a lot to the sauce
For those who are interested, the sauce is gluten-free and vegan. There are many uses for the sauce, either as is, or modified as a part of other Italian sauces.
This may get lengthy because I will likely show two recipes
To make 2 cups of Marinara you will need:
1 can (28 Oz. tomatoes)
1/2 of a medium onion (left whole)
1 Tablespoon olive oil
3 cloves minced garlic
2 teaspoons fresh basil
2 teaspoons oregano (dried from our herb bed)
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon black pepper.
Directions:
Add the ingredients to a sauce pan or sauté pan. My intent was to not have any onion in my finished sauce (only onion flavor) and I removed the half onion when the sauce was finished. If you like, you can chop the onions and keep them in the sauce. If you like, you can also add bell pepper to the sauce. If you like you can add wine to the sauce.
To cook the sauce, add the ingredients to a sauté pan and bring it to a simmer. As the sauce cooks, I broke up these tomatoes with a wooden spoon. You can crush them with your hands to break the tomatoes apart as they are added if you like. I like some pieces of tomato in my finished marinara so I am not too concerned with leaving some pieces as I break it up during cooking. If you like red wine in your Marinara, this is when you would add it.
I cooked this sauce at a low simmer for about an hour or hour and a half, until the liquid reduced to a thick sauce. You should taste during the reduction and season as desired with more salt, or sugar, which helps reduce the acid taste you sometimes get with canned tomatoes. You can adjust the level of sweetness with sugar to the taste you like.
This recipe will make about two cups of thick sauce that you can thin to the consistency you desire with water, or wine.
This is a nice bright sauce. You can use it as is over pasta, or add meat to make a meat sauce.
Next Option:
Here is another take on Marinara sauce, using chopped onions.
This sauce used two cans of tomatoes, garlic, chopped onion, basil, olive oil, salt, black pepper and oregano.
Tomatoes are crushed - You can do this your preferred way. The wife (MHNBPF) used her hands.
Used about two cups of chopped onion and maybe a Tablespoon of garlic, sautéed in olive oil until tender.
Then added the crushed tomatoes, 2 teaspoons of basil chiffonade and a maybe three Tablespoons of tomato paste, 2 teaspoons of salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper to the pan. You can make a basil/tomato marinara by adding more basil than I used. IMO, a little basil goes a long way.
Cooked at a low simmer for maybe two hours.
This one was used in a veal parmesan.
and then later in a Bolognese sauce with pasta
Thanks for looking at my post.
All my stuff
Marinara Sauce
This is a simple tomato sauce for pasta dishes. It can also be used as a base for making several other tomato based Italian Sauces. Classic recipes for Marinara can either include onion, or not. You can add wine if you like. I think Anchovies also add a lot to the sauce
For those who are interested, the sauce is gluten-free and vegan. There are many uses for the sauce, either as is, or modified as a part of other Italian sauces.
This may get lengthy because I will likely show two recipes
To make 2 cups of Marinara you will need:
1 can (28 Oz. tomatoes)
1/2 of a medium onion (left whole)
1 Tablespoon olive oil
3 cloves minced garlic
2 teaspoons fresh basil
2 teaspoons oregano (dried from our herb bed)
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon black pepper.
Directions:
Add the ingredients to a sauce pan or sauté pan. My intent was to not have any onion in my finished sauce (only onion flavor) and I removed the half onion when the sauce was finished. If you like, you can chop the onions and keep them in the sauce. If you like, you can also add bell pepper to the sauce. If you like you can add wine to the sauce.
To cook the sauce, add the ingredients to a sauté pan and bring it to a simmer. As the sauce cooks, I broke up these tomatoes with a wooden spoon. You can crush them with your hands to break the tomatoes apart as they are added if you like. I like some pieces of tomato in my finished marinara so I am not too concerned with leaving some pieces as I break it up during cooking. If you like red wine in your Marinara, this is when you would add it.
I cooked this sauce at a low simmer for about an hour or hour and a half, until the liquid reduced to a thick sauce. You should taste during the reduction and season as desired with more salt, or sugar, which helps reduce the acid taste you sometimes get with canned tomatoes. You can adjust the level of sweetness with sugar to the taste you like.
This recipe will make about two cups of thick sauce that you can thin to the consistency you desire with water, or wine.
This is a nice bright sauce. You can use it as is over pasta, or add meat to make a meat sauce.
Next Option:
Here is another take on Marinara sauce, using chopped onions.
This sauce used two cans of tomatoes, garlic, chopped onion, basil, olive oil, salt, black pepper and oregano.
Tomatoes are crushed - You can do this your preferred way. The wife (MHNBPF) used her hands.
Used about two cups of chopped onion and maybe a Tablespoon of garlic, sautéed in olive oil until tender.
Then added the crushed tomatoes, 2 teaspoons of basil chiffonade and a maybe three Tablespoons of tomato paste, 2 teaspoons of salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper to the pan. You can make a basil/tomato marinara by adding more basil than I used. IMO, a little basil goes a long way.
Cooked at a low simmer for maybe two hours.
This one was used in a veal parmesan.
and then later in a Bolognese sauce with pasta
Thanks for looking at my post.
All my stuff
This post was edited on 5/14/20 at 5:28 pm
Posted on 4/30/20 at 2:01 pm to MeridianDog
My god that looks good. MD you've done it again
Posted on 4/30/20 at 2:04 pm to MeridianDog
You posted this recipe years ago, and it's the only marinara I've made since. It's SO GOOD.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 2:42 pm to MeridianDog
What's the story with the no onion sauce? Both look incredible, thank you for the effort.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 2:49 pm to MeridianDog
I notice you have tomato paste in the picture, but not in the ingredient list or in the recipe description.
Are you using it or not?
I'm only asking because I use it in a "red gravy" but not when I make what I consider "marinara." The cooking pics and rest of the description look like what I would consider "marinara" - at least as I make it. It doesn't look like there's any paste involved. Is there?
Are you using it or not?
I'm only asking because I use it in a "red gravy" but not when I make what I consider "marinara." The cooking pics and rest of the description look like what I would consider "marinara" - at least as I make it. It doesn't look like there's any paste involved. Is there?
Posted on 4/30/20 at 3:42 pm to MeridianDog
Fresh ingredients cooked simply! What color! Herb garden about to get a workout. Thank you...
Posted on 4/30/20 at 4:12 pm to MeridianDog
Looks good but you could really benefit from better ingredients. Namely your tomatoes. Should be able to find San Marzanoes wherever you are. Be they Cento, Poma Rosa etc. it really makes a difference
Posted on 4/30/20 at 5:48 pm to MeridianDog
HES BACK
welcome back MD
welcome back MD
Posted on 4/30/20 at 5:56 pm to MeridianDog
Posted on 4/30/20 at 6:22 pm to MobileJosh
quote:
MobileJosh
I agree with you completely. However the tomatoes I use are as little as $1.89 a can (28 ounces) and the same size can of "better tomatoes" can run $7.21 a can.
Here - San Marzino 12 pack/$86.56
Sadly I am po-folks and can't work that into my budget. I know most folks here can buy them all day long. I just choose to spend my money elsewhere. Buying them makes no sense to me, because it cuts into my whiskey budget.
You are correct. more expensive tomatoes are better. I recommend you use them exclusively.
Rant ended - Sarcasm [off]
This post was edited on 4/30/20 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 4/30/20 at 6:29 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Tomato paste
Good catch. sometimes I use it and sometimes I don't. I'm not sure it makes much of a difference once the sauce is cooked down.
Another photo one with diced onions, tomato paste and what looks like crushed tomatoes or tomato puree:
Good catch. sometimes I use it and sometimes I don't. I'm not sure it makes much of a difference once the sauce is cooked down.
Another photo one with diced onions, tomato paste and what looks like crushed tomatoes or tomato puree:
This post was edited on 4/30/20 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 4/30/20 at 6:29 pm to MeridianDog
These days whiskey budget is paramount!
Posted on 4/30/20 at 8:42 pm to MeridianDog
Very nice. Try dropping a rind of parmigiano reggiano in it.
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